Second Thoughts Are Best
2017·26 pages
Daniel Defoe's 1729 pamphlet, written under a pseudonym, proposes reforms to address rising street robberies and improve public safety in 18th-century London.
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Daniel Defoe's 1729 pamphlet, written under a pseudonym, proposes reforms to address rising street robberies and improve public safety in 18th-century London.
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Second Thoughts Are Best: or, a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies is a 1729 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe. He wrote it under the name of Andrew Moreton Esq., presented as a dissatisfied middle-class old man extremely concerned about the increase in criminality around the 1720s.As in other essays, such as Every-body's Business, Is No-Body's Business (1725), The Protestant Monastery (1726), Parochial Tyranny (1727) and Augusta Triumphans (1728), Moreton here inquiries int...
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Romance & sex
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Brief mentions of prostitution as a social issue; no explicit scenes or depictions.
Violence & gore
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Minor discussions of street robberies and crimes without graphic details.
Profanity
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No profanity or strong language.
Substance use
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Cautionary portrayal of gin shops and alcohol as contributors to social ills and crime.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation.
Religious content
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No religious themes present.
Magic & witchcraft
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No witchcraft or occult elements.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on social and political reforms for urban safety, crime prevention, and addressing poverty and vagrancy.
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted.
Abuse & suffering
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Discussions of systemic suffering from poverty, vagrancy, and crime victimization; no graphic abuse scenes.
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